Harm Reduction

Poisonous Plants

If you want to read about physicians’ “stigmatizing” terms, you might consider this.

Anti-smoking groups had a serious problem on their hands.

I recently wrote about the need for change in the use of animal testing for biological research, including alternatives and barriers to acceptance.

Healthcare is not a free market; through consolidation, driven by mergers and acquisitions, sometimes fueled by private equity, healthcare is becoming more monopolistic than a free market of many.

 

If you need further evidence that the tobacco-control movement has lost its way, consider this December 1 story from

Trust is like a piece of china, Precious, raw, and rare. When it’s broken, it can be mended, But the crack is always there.  

The headline only captures a portion of the story; a deeper look reveals some interesting tidbits.

In response to Oster’s piece, the journalistic tsunami was both torrential and ran along political lines and personal moral credos.